read

Meaning

Verb

1. To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
2. To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
3. To read work(s) written by (a named author).
4. To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
5. To consist of certain text.
6. Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
7. To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.
8. (informal) Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
9. To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
10. To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
11. To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
12. To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
13. To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
14. To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
15. To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
16. (obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).
17. (obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede.
18. (obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.

Noun

1. A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
2. Something to be read; a written work.
3. A person's interpretation or impression of something.
4. An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
5. The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string

Concepts

read

study

learn

interpret

peruse

understand

reading

see

count

take

recite

chant

translate

say

examine

comprehend

look

watch

read out

hear

decipher

make out

record

show

look at

construe

catch

get

inspect

find

calculate

predict

scan

register

indicate

pray

expound

sense

call

say prayers

go

explain

rede

compass

know

look into

teach

apprehend

review

play

augur

bet

forecast

outguess

second-guess

surmise

suspect

wager

cram

go through

fetch

dictate

read loud

indicate data

get learning

proofread

try to make out

attained

learnt

remembered

studied

read carefully

leaf

foresee

foretell

expert

versed

control

define

interpretation

explore

approach

research

playback

readout

sensing

cane

sing

be

hearken

hark

harken

belong

feature

inhere

inhere in

involve

sound

address

aim

allocate

appropriate

betoken

charge

denote

exhibit

extend

give

keynote

level

manifest

orient

pay

point

point out

prove

refute

turn

account

account for

articulate

explicate

formulate

gloss

make

unscramble

alive

appreciate

figure

follow

get it

perceive

realise

touch

discern

recognise

recognize

browse

bring up

educate

identify

meet

incant

dip into

find out

perusal

answer

view

assume

figure out

make sense

realize

resolve

dig

empathise

empathize

grasp

savvy

sympathise

declaim

remove skin

printed

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹiːd/

Etymology

From Middle English reden, from Old English rǣdan (“to counsel, advise, consult; interpret, read”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādan, from Proto-Germanic *rēdaną (“advise, counsel”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₁dʰ- (“to arrange”).
Cognate with Scots rede, red (“to advise, counsel, decipher, read”), Saterland Frisian räide (“to advise, counsel”), West Frisian riede (“to advise, counsel”), Dutch raden (“to advise; guess, counsel, rede”), German raten (“to advise; guess”), Danish råde (“to advise”), Swedish råda (“to advise, counsel”), Persian رده (rade, “to order, to arrange, class”). The development from ‘advise’ to ‘interpret, interpret letters, read’ is unique to English among Germanic languages. Compare rede.

Sentences

" How did you learn to read ?" the girl asked at one point .

Please read my proposal for the future direction of the business .